‘This isn’t the Britain we fought for,’ say the ‘unknown warriors’ of WWII
Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.
She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.
Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.
As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.
Some WWII soldiers, and families of those lost in the war, have complained society today shows no sign of the effort they made to help
Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation’s sense of service and sacrifice.
Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.
But was it worth it? Her answer - and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s - is a resounding No.
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My Father, here in the US, towards the end of his life had re-thought his little “adventures” in WW 2 and came to the troubling conclusion that something was not right about how WW 2 was presented to him as a young man. Not that he had any fondness for the Japanese who he joined the Navy specifically to fight and was nearly killed but for the end result of the war many years later. He said that the America he grew up in was just fine despite the depression but the America he soon was to die in and that his children and grandchildren had to face was a nightmare. That was not what he wanted to leave behind for us and that is not why he served. He did not live long enough to see the “nightmare” truly blossom as it has here and in what was once was called, England.
He had NO ill feelings for the Germans by the way and thought that the British leadership had a very dirty insidious hand in stirring the pot that became a bloody and destructive world war. But life after the war was good for him and he threw his life into providing for his family and enjoyed and became submerged the tidal surge of economic blessings that the United States initially had. “Initially had” are the operative words but business and life had him focused on personal issues and not the bigger ones that have consumed countries like Great Briton and the US. While he was busy others were likewise busy trying to CHANGE the world and dispose of people like my Father and his family, his culture, his race, his religion… . It took something akin to old Scrooge being visited by his own past, the present and the Grim Reaper of the Future to shake him from his sleep to look up and see the world as it really was and that was from not a Jacob Marley but rather facing his own mortality.
So here we are. England is no longer and we in the US are in a quick pursuit of following England to the grave. What a great accomplishment World War Two was! Someone is celebrating and it is not the Victors nor the Vanquished.